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Former WHOI Director John Steele presents a model of WHOI’s first research vessel Atlantis to astronauts Woody Spring and Jerry Ross, who flew on NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis in 1986.…

The Society for Women in Marine Science (SWMS) held its annual symposium at WHOI in September, with more than 100 women—and a few men—attending the sold-out free event. Speakers described…

WHOI’s newest ship, the R/V Neil Armstrong, catches the late afternoon light as the harvest moon, the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox, rises above the ship. The state-of-the-art,…

The WHOI Summer Student Fellowship (SSF) program and the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP) bring undergraduates to WHOI each summer to learn more about ocean science through seminars, field…

On a recent visit, Admiral John Richardson (right), the U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, toured a number of the Institution’s science and engineering facilities and heard from researchers about their…

Last August, WHOI hosted a visit by Dr. Tamara Dickinson, the Principal Assistant Director for Environment and Energy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. During her…

WHOI engineering assistant Chris Judge rewires a junction box on the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason. This junction box, or j-box, houses the electrical wiring that connects the ROV’s cameras,…

WHOI physical oceanographer John Toole (right) studies some of the ocean’s smallest features in order to better understand its inner workings. Toole, together with Kurt Polzin and an engineering team…

WHOI biologist Mark Baumgartner has deployed buoys carrying his near real-time whale-listening devices off the coasts of Massachusetts, Maine, and New York. The technology includes software developed by Baumgartner to…

WHOI Summer Student Fellow Stefani Johnson of St. John’s University discussed her poster with scientist Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink in August 2016. Students in the program work with scientists as advisors and…

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Melissa Moulton (center) received the 2016 George “Gera” Pavlovich Panteleyev Award from Associate Dean Margaret Tivey and Dean Jim Yoder in June 2016. The award is…

The June 2016 commencement ceremonies of MIT-WHOI Joint Program included the recipient of the one-thousandth degree awarded since the program was launched in 1967. The milestone was marked by a…

MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Sophie Chu (right) and research assistant Kate Morkeski prepare to measure the movement of dissolved inorganic carbon in a Waquoit Bay salt marsh. In additional to…

With a storm on the horizon, the ocean is probably the last place you want to put your valuable instruments. Patrick Deane (left) and Sean Whelan did just that, launching an…

In June 2016 R/V Neil Armstrong traveled to the edge and slope of the continental shelf south of Cape Cod. The cruise was part of a series of trips deisgned…

WHOI scientist Anna Michel is developing new ways to measure gases in the air over long distances using a technique called laser spectroscopy. Some of the light from a laser is absorbed by…

Mike Dodge, husband of marine biologist Kara Dodge, prepares to attach a suction cup-mounted tag to the back of a leatherback sea turtle in waters near Cape Cod recently. Both…

WHOI geologist Maurice Tivey has an unusual speciality: He studies the magnetic properties of rocks. When volcanic magma solidifies, magnetic crystals form in rocks and become oriented in the direction…

Members of the Wampanoag tribal nation (foreground) welcome the crew from the Hōkūle’a at WHOI this summer. Hokule’a is a traditional Polynesian sailing canoe currently on a round-the-world tour to…